The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace.

Bernard Baruch

It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.

Tiberius Caesar

You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing.

Charlie Sheen

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

Mark Twain

None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.

Paulo Coelho

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

Ruth Benedict

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

More and more NFL players have been willing their bodies to science so that their brains can be studied even if they die of other causes.

Jeffrey Kluger

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life.

Leo Tolstoy

It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son -- and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

Helen Rowland

When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody.

Harvey Fierstein

None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson